Space Patrol: Sergeant Anne-Marie Duscat

Born with a natural attention to detail and suspicion of others, Anne-Marie Duscat trained as a Marine intelligence analyst and Patrol security officer. Her assignment to the Kiran Bedi marks her first field work after years on the security staff of a Patrol base on Titus III.

Duscat discovered her psionic abilities during a Marine training mission. A micrometeorite storm punctured the hull of her shuttlecraft. One fellow trainee was killed instantly. The other helped Duscat patch the hull before succumbing to internal injuries. With comms down and the closest ship nearly a day away, Duscat watched her oxygen slowly dwindle. Rather than accept death, Anne-Marie managed to place herself in a psionically induced state of suspended animation until rescue arrived.

Sergenat Duscat is a nondescript, light-skinned blonde woman who appears to be about 18 years old, though she is in fact nearly a decade older. She is quiet but friendly, though her habit of slipping through the ship unannounced puts some of her crew-mates off.

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